Caraboo narrative singular imposition (19 Ergebnisse)

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

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First edition of the fascinating account of Mary Willcocks, who posed as the fictional Princess Caraboo of Javasu, a supposed island in the Indian Ocean. Mary Baker, nee Willcocks (c. 1791-1864), fabricated an enchanting tale of kidnapping. She claimed to have been taken from the fictional Javasu by pirates and held captive on board their ship, heading towards Britain. Once reaching the Bristol Channel, she jumped overboard and swam to the Gloucestershire coast. She bolstered her narrative with her garb, which was sufficiently shabby and unusual to substantiate her story. The turban-clad Caraboo aroused the pity of the American-born Elizabeth Worrall. Her husband declared that the young woman was a beggar and had her tried for vagrancy. During the short imprisonment, she was identified by a Portuguese sailor, Manuel Enes, who claimed to understand her fabricated language. After the vote of confidence, the Worralls took her in. She fuelled her mythical status by praying to a God she called "Allah-Talla", shooting a bow and arrow in the parkland, providing examples of her written language, insisting on sleeping on the floor, and on one occasion, she was known to have bathed naked in a pond in the garden. The theologian Richard Whately described the final exposure of the hoax: "A young woman came into Mr. W's kitchen, where Caraboo happened to be, and immediately exclaimed, 'Ah, Mary Baker, how come you are here?' She declared that she had long known this so-called Caraboo, who thereupon began to speak good English, and acknowledges her fraud" (Whately, p. 628). After her exposure, Willcocks travelled to America, where she dabbled in show business, but when this failed, she returned to England. For the next thirty years, she supplied leeches to the Bristol Infirmary. As a young woman Willcocks had lived "with Gypsies, whose language and rituals are recognizable in Princess Caraboo's performance at Knole" (ODNB). Provenance: this is from the library of the comedian and bibliophile Barry Humphries, with his bookplate on the front pastedown. Richard Whately, "The Pretended Princess Caraboo", Gloucestershire Notes and Queries, Vol. 3, Issues 2536, 1885. Quarto (250 x 156 mm). Engraved frontispiece of Willcocks, folding plate, illustrations in the text. Recent half mottled calf to style, spine with raised bands, compartments ruled in gilt, dark blue morocco spine label, marbled boards, edge uncut, endleaves renewed. Signature of one Elizabeth Whalley on half-title. Spine slightly cocked, top corner of front cover a little bumped, gutter before title reinforced with archival tape, small marginal repair with Japanese to final leaf, minor stain to pp. 6-7 at head, occasional foxing: a very good copy.…